SEE YOU IN 18 MONTHS

     As you all know Jill received her mission call to Rapid City, South Dakota Mission.  She entered the Missionary Training Center, what we all know as the M.T. C., on February 20, 2013.  We only had 42 total days to get it all together for her to be ready to go and serve the Lord.  We did it!  

     

     We discovered that it was hard to find clothes that were modest as they say.  Jill has always been conscience of that but she was discovering that it was harder than she thought----conservative and modest.  We did it and felt quite successful!

     On February 20th, 2013 was a hard day. We, as a family, thought it would be easier for us to say good-bye to Jill that it was to say it to Josh (Jill's brother) at the M. T. C..  I guess we thought that because she had been away to school and Josh had served a mission---we were wrong  it was just as hard.  But we made it.

     The funny part of that day is that when we were dropping her off as a family, the greeting missionaries thought that it was Kevin and I leaving to go on a mission.  We were Senior Missionaries.  

     Jill has asked me her mother to post some of her letters and an occasional picture from her mission.  It will be straight from Jill.  Letters will be cut and pasted--honesty will be apparent, raw feelings, and testimony struggles will be shared as well.  The only thing we as as you read her blog is that you don't judge---and pray for the missionaries of the world, pray for Sister Jill Dallon as she serves and write her letters to show her support.

     The letters at first will be in order as best as can be as the author, Jill's mom, was just asked to post them.   

       I am very proud of my daughter and as a family we are proud of our daughter that she chose to serve a mission to serve our Heavenly Father.  She will grow, she will change and the adventures that are in front of her are endless.  

     So here goes:  See you in 18 months, Love Sister Jill Dallon  

South Dakota! Here I come!

As many of you know I have been working on my mission papers. I sent them in over the Christmas Holiday so I thought it was going to take forever! I mean forever! Many of my friends have left on there's already and I was so angry because I hadn't even got my call or sent in my papers. I sent them in and I was on my way. I am going to South Dakota Rapid City Mission I am leaving in February on the 20th. I can't believe this is reality!
I emailed my best friend Elder Hoefelmann! He was so excited for me, he is going to Peru on his he is in the MTC right now. We emailed for a few minutes he is still the same Jake I have grown to love! He is so funny. He told me I was going to Zimbabwe I was like no I'm not and he was like yes you are. Today he said Jill you will be back before me and  I was like yes! I am so glad because if I wasn't going to be I was going  to be so sad! I am so excited because then I can go to his home coming.
We talk about the good and the bad! He said Jill I am going to be real with you and you can always be real with me and I know that to be true! I always have been he is so great! I am so excited for the opportunity I have to go and serve the Lord at this day and age! I am 21 for all of you who are wondering. I am not ashamed to say that because I am one of the grown up ones to go. I may act like I am 5 but let me tel you something. I am so excited.
I am going to somewhere cold but they have flushy potty's and that is all that matters to me! If I had to use portapotty's I was not going to go I even told my mom and my stake president that. I know that is a bad attitude but I knew that my heavenly father wouldn't let me down.
I am so lucky and so glad that I am going to South Dakota. It is by the BIG HEADS!!!! I am so glad that I am worth to go and serve the Lord for 18 months. I am truly blessed to live in this time that they send missionaries out.
South Dakota here I come! Run hard! Have fun! Follow your dreams never give them up for anyone! Peace out cub scout until next time I am going on another adventure!

My Best Friend Jake!

My Best Friend Jake isn't one of those normal best friends you have he is a crazy one! We became friends freshman of college. He is best friends with my land lord Harold. Therefore he was over at the Treehouse quite often. Then this year we started hanging out and were friends then something happened and we didn't really talk for a month. Yes I have written mean blog post about him and some others but this kid is something else. After not talking I called him one Friday night and was screaming because me and McKayle saw a spider it was as big as my face no joke! Ask Jake he had to drive across town to kill it! Then that Thursday I was going to go talk to my teacher to see what I could do to help my grade. But he was like Jill can we talk I was thinking WOW way to man up. We walked and talked for two hours. He would go to the temple with my roommates every morning I would go sometimes. He would always wake me up when he opened the door to come in. After we talked that day we became the best of friends! I wouldn't change not talking to him for anything because it made us so much tighter! We are tighter than ever now. I am so thankful for that! I am so thankful for Jake who takes the time to understand me and he doesn't even care how loud I burp yea its gross but he never cared. I am sure he did but he never said anything he just let me be me! He is getting ready to go on his mission. I am going to miss that boy so much! He is amazing and those people in Peru are going to be so blessed to have such a wonderful young man. He has come a long way in life! I am so proud of him. He has put me back together a few times. The last week when I was at school my best friend left and I was moving I cried so hard that day but guess who was the one who was there hugging me to tell me everything was going to be okay. Yup Jake! He went and watched Chelzee play volleyball then they came back and he gave me his frosty just to see my smile because he hadn't seen it all day. He was the one who took the time to make sure I was okay he didn't care! I cried so hard but he just let me. He sings this coconut song and it is my favorite! Today will be the last day he sings it for awhile. I am so glad to say that I have a best friend named Jake who I know would do anything for me even if it is to come over to my house and kill a spider while I am on the table screaming. I love Jake he has taught me so much this past semester. I will always remember when we were on our way to Vegas he was looking at Chelzee and me and I was like Jake I am not the pretty so don't look at me. He got so serious and said Jill look at me I said no he said look at me. (Jake never gets serious!) He said Jill you are pretty, beautiful and cute don't you dare ever let me hear that come out of your mouth again. I said okay you never will. Jake is one person who I will always have a friend in he is not one of those friends who just calls when they need you he is the one like dude what can I do for you. I love Jake he is so great! Good Luck on your mission buddy! I love you Garth!! ;) You'll do so great! I am so lucky to say that Jake is my best friend! I love him!
Until next time I am going on another adventure! Peace out cub scout! Run hard play hard. Live like there is no tomorrow because you never know!

They never said goodbye would be easy!

I never thought saying goodbye to you would be so hard! You have been my rock and my best friend for the last four months. You were there when I couldn't do anything you were there when I cried because I was so mad and stress. You were the one who could calm me down when no one else could. You taught me what it's like to be loved by someone other than my family! You are now apart of my family I wouldn't change that for anything in the world. I will always remember hiding from you in the cupboard and trying not to blow my cover when you call. I will always remember the days I wanted to lose it but because of you I didn't.
I remember Tuesday night when we cried on the sofa for 3 hours Chelzee hugged you and Jake hugged me. We cried together we didn't care but we didn't want to leave! We have been through thick and thin. Saying goodbye to you was the hardest thing I have ever done. I love you so much! I will miss you so much! We had a sleepover and many adventures I will never forget. I will always remember you! I will never forget the fun we have had.
You are my best friend you always will be my best friend! I love you forever!
I haven't cried this hard in a long time. Losing you was the hardest thing of my life! Goodbyes are never easy and this is one I never wanted to have to do. I love you forever! You'll always be my best friend! Best friend forever!!!
Until next time Peace out cub scout! I am off to my next adventure. Run hard play hard! Enjoy yourself! Time is so precious you never know when that is the last time! I am so thankful that I have Jaime in my life I will miss her so much! She is my best friend in the whole widest world!

The bathroom is where you should go pee not in the living room!

I am sick of going home and all I can smell is your urine because you pee all over my sofas and living room floor. That is what a bathroom is for.  I do not understand why you pee everywhere but in a toilet. I am so sick of it I wish the land lord would do something about it!
Okay the real reason I am complaining I just want to watch NCIS and Amazing Race but I can't because it smells so bad in there because of Faith who is from Africa and thinks it is okay to pee everywhere well let me tell you something honey it isn't! You make my life heck you are going to get it right back!
Please pee in the bathroom and not the living room or in your bed. We are all sick of the smell of you! You stink that is all there is to it. Take a shower and use soap!!!!!!! Honestly! People did your parents never teach you how to shower. Well let me give you a fast lesson. Step one turn on the water. Step two once you get your clothes off get in  the shower. Step three use soap. Step four rinse off and repeat. Not that hard common sense people! I forget that people don't have common sense anymore.
Peace out cub scout until next time I am going on another adventure! Run just and be free! Have fun and be happy!

Lost car keys!

The adventure of a lifetime! How many people does it take to find Jake's car keys five that's right five! We go to talk to his mom but then we go to his house to make pancakes. I was doing the dishes then someone took over no big deal. I went an laid down behind the sofa I was mad but I didn't want to start a war. Everyone was like you can lay on the couch I was like no I love laying behind the sofa, I even do it at my house as well. Then they finish eating and whatever else they were doing. Then I moved to the middle of the floor and slept there for awhile he put a blanket on me and left me alone. Then at 1 am he decides we can leave but we can't find his keys. Oh No!! Where could they of gone! We looked for 20 minutes at his house then we went back to my house still no keys. Being the LDS people we are we prayed still nothing then we prayed again an hour later still nothing, we went back to his house straightened up his room looked in is suit pants and suit coat still nothing. So we cleaned out the couch still nothing we prayed again and then we sat on his couch and then decided to check Chelzee's car again. We come back to my house and guess what we found in Chelzee's car yup his keys. Jake and Leana both looked there but obviously they didn't look hard enough I guess. Our prayers were answered and our faith was stirred but then we prayed after we found them.

It was so good to find them. He was so excited so were we! He talked to us for a few more minutes and then he left. Moral of my story is pray to find your keys and answers will come it may take time but it will come. You are on the lord's time frame not yours. I know there was a reason he lost his keys but I will never know what that reason was. I learned that day that I didn't matter to them. I wish they would of left me asleep on his floor in the living room. 

I may not be perfect and that is okay with me! I am so amazing and if you can't see it you aren't worth my time. 

Until next time I am off to an other adventure! Peace out cub scout! Run hard play hard! Run jump be free! Enjoy life! Enjoy the little things enjoy the memories you are making they may be horrible but when you look bad on them they won't be so bad! Love life, live it to the fullest! Tell your love ones you love them often you never know when the will be gone!

I never fit in with you, so why did I even try?!

You didn't hurt my feel goods don't  even worry! I like being told Jill go home so we can watch a movie. No big deal. Of course you hurt my feelings of course I was mad but I don't need you to text me and be like sorry you are mad we just didn't want to make you change your standards to be with us. Wow thanks guys for being so considerate. I helped you clean your house so your mom would not have so much stress. I did it for your mom not you! My mom always taught me to respect people and that is what I try to do. My mom taught me how to serve one another! Because of her I am the person I am today and I am not willing to lower my standards to watch a rated R movie with you. I am sorry I don't do that but next time be straight up honest with me about it. Don't try to hide it. I am not a rated R movie watcher. I am not perfect and I do have some flaws but that is okay.
I love the way you just say Jill we are going to watch a rated R movie will you please leave that was the plan this whole time. Wow, thank you for being so considerate. Thanks for trying to respect me and my standards you have a funny way of showing it. I am not going to change who I am to do something I don't want to do. I don't need you to ask me if I am mad because that just makes it worse for you. I know I never mattered to you! I just thought that we could be friends. I guess I was wrong. I only have a little over a month left and then I am free and you will be out of my life for good.
We will go our separate ways and if we are meant to cross paths we will but I sure hope we never do. Trying to make this friendship work is to hard I am done. I rather be happy then sad inside for the rest of my life. Just because I am not a rated R movie watcher. I wish you would of just been like Jill we don't want to watch a movie with you or we don't want to hang out with you. That would of not hurt my feelings as much because that is honest! I am so dumb for believing I fit in. I was never really good enough for your group I should of known that from the start.
Life is hard and it gives you lemons. I am going to make lemonade out of them. Don't even worry you didn't hurt my feelings. I knew I never meant anything to you! I am sorry you have to live with me and I am sorry I am such a horrible person. But next time please just be straight up honest with me!
Peace out cub scout I am off to my next adventure. Until next time run hard play hard! Keep your standards high don't lower them for anyone or anything! Have fun and follow your dreams! Don't give them up for anyone or anything! Loving Life!